Carole Boyd
OccupationActress
Years active1966–present
Spouse
Patrick Harrison
​
(m. 1993)​
AwardsAudie Award for Best Female Narrator (1998)

Carole Boyd is a British actress. She has had a career in theatre, television, and radio, and plays Lynda Snell MBE in BBC Radio 4's The Archers. In 1998, she won the Audie Award for Best Female Narrator for her narration of Angela Huth's Land Girls.[1]

Career

Boyd trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, where she won the principal national prize for voice[2] and in 1966 joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary.[3] She is primarily recognised for her work in television, with her portrayals of Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Virtual Murder and Mrs Melly in Bodger and Badger among her appearances. Boyd has also performed multiple vocal roles for the BBC children's programme Postman Pat. Since 1991, she has voiced every woman and child in the franchise - including Sara Clifton, Dr Gilbertson, Mrs Goggins, Miss Hubbard, Mrs Pottage, Dorothy Thompson, Lucy Selby, Tom and Katy Pottage, Charlie Pringle, and Julian Clifton, among others (with the exception of Granny Dryden, who continued to be voiced by Ken Barrie prior to his death in 2016). In 2006, she played Esther Hartlieb in the film The Thief Lord.[4]

Personal life

Married to Patrick Harrison, Boyd has acted as part-time carer for her husband at their home in Shepperton since he suffered a stroke in 2003.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "1998 Audie Awards". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Sale, Jonathan (3 June 1999). "Passed/Failed; Carole Boyd". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award winners". BBC Radio Drama Company. BBC.co.uk. 17 June 2014. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Film review: The Thief Lord". CBBC Newsround. BBC News. 19 June 2006. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "Time to be Me". Surrey Matters. Surrey County Council. June 2015. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ↑ De Thame, Rachel (17 July 2005). "Gardening: A very private affair". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2005.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.